Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
BILL VAUGHANManagers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
BILL VAUGHANBy the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie.
BILL VAUGHANThe eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
BILL VAUGHANHope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
BILL VAUGHANBy the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
BILL VAUGHANEvery time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?
BILL VAUGHANEven pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
BILL VAUGHANIf you’re involved in an accident and you’re at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your house because you failed to spend an extra couple of hundred bucks?
BILL VAUGHANThere must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.
BILL VAUGHANWhat a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
BILL VAUGHANVirtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
BILL VAUGHANHe suffered from paralysis by analysis.
BILL VAUGHANThe old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself.
BILL VAUGHANOccasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
BILL VAUGHANThe less important you are on the table of organization, the more you’ll be missed if you don’t show up for work.
BILL VAUGHANBecause, as we are told-a sad old joke, too- Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
BILL VAUGHAN